July 31, 2011

Walking Guns

As is so often the case, a couple of items dropped over the transom today, containing similar subject matter. There's bad (though utterly unsurprising) news, and there's good news. Let's get the bad out of the way first:

Given that Barry promised the most open and transparent administration in the history of the country, it comes as no surprise that "Operation Fast and Stupid" was fully known at the highest levels of the Obama administration several months prior to the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

The latest evidence that both the White House and attorney general knew and approved of Project Gunrunner and its deadly offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious, came this week in the testimony of William Newell, ATF special agent in charge of the Phoenix office, before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Newell sent O'Reilly the requested information with the caveat, "You didn't get this from me."

That's never a good sign. That odor assaulting your nostrils is emanating straight from the White House. The Obama administration: Dealers in death.

But in other news, Michigan has around 276,000 folks with concealed-carry permits - about double the number expected after the law was changed a decade ago, and the Detroit Free Press is reporting that the bloodshed and carnage that had been somberly predicted by opponents has - um, well...it hasn't happened.

Only 2% of license holders have been sanctioned for any kind of misbehavior, State Police records show.

Still, anti-gun activists say changing the law was a grave mistake. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Web site describes state reforms like the one enacted in Michigan as "a recipe for disaster."

Of course. That's why they're anti-gun activists. Don't try to confuse them with a decade of facts.